Uniontown, Ohio Lions Club

A MINIBUS that has ferried housebound residents around the area is to have a vital new role taking sick children to hospital in Uganda.

Prestatyn and Rhyl Lions Club is donating its bus to the Uganda Eye Bus appeal after stricter health and safety regulations forced the club to take the vehicle off the road.

Club member Gerry Beasley said: “The bus is 10 years old and it will be used out there for another 10 years taking people to hospitals.

The bus will be taken by boat to Mombassa, Kenya, where a group of African volunteers will drive the bus to Kampala, Uganda.

It will be travelling with a custom-built £60,000 eye operation bus which is being paid for by Lions clubs across the North West and match-funded by the group’s international foundation.

Surgeons using the bus can operate on children suffering from cataract and eye problems.